McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant (a former Public, NASDAQ:MSSR) is engaged in operating seafood restaurant. As of December 26, 2009, the Company operated 93 restaurants, including 87 restaurants in the United States.
The daily-printed menu contains more than 80 made-to-order dishes, including a selection of international, national, regional and local species of seafood. The Company’s signature Fresh list displayed at the tip of the daily-printed menu, features 20 to 30 varieties of fresh seafood, based on seasonality, product availability, price and guest preferences. It also offers alternatives to seafood, including high quality beef, creative salads and fresh pasta dishes.
In 2012, McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants became a part of the Landry’s, Inc. family, joining more than 300 locations nationwide, including restaurants, hotels and entertainment centers.
On April 4, 2011, Tilman J. Fertitta, who was already the company's single largest individual shareholder, made a bid to take McCormick & Schmick's private, offering $9.25 per share for the company's outstanding shares, a 30 percent premium over its April 1 closing price. An offer of $8.75 per share was accepted by McCormick & Schmick's board in November 2011, with the purchase expected to be completed by January 2012.Operations would be merged into Landry's Restaurants, though Feritta expected to "keep some sort of an office in Portland."The sale to the conglomerate was completed in January 2012, and the once publicly traded company was removed from the NASDAQ exchange after trading under the MSSR symbol from 2004 until 2012.(Source: Wikipedia)